Diamond Entertainment Inc

Diamond Entertainment Inc. has extensive experience in producing television programs, special events and live stage performances. The Company, based in Toronto, produces quality shows throughout southern Ontario that are entertaining and have high production values. The Company has been presenting live music entertainment since 1992. John Dimon is the CEO of Diamond Entertainment Inc. Several of the shows Dimon has produced have received international recognition for excellence including a coveted Emmy Award.

Our goal is to produce quality live entertainment that promotes the performing arts and encourages the appreciation of music. Our primary objective is to maintain a high standard of entertainment value in order to present music-based productions which are enjoyable and attractive to audiences.

Stardust Follies is a musical journey from Vaudeville and Broadway to Hollywood and more! It’s a fresh and original song-dance-comedy-musical salute to show business and its brightest stars. Jam-packed with over 30 hit songs, talented singer-entertainers, Busby Berkley dance routines, multi-media visuals, dazzling showgirls and colourful costumes, this high-energy extravaganza is absolutely guaranteed to entertain.



The Kings of Swing Big Band Show salutes the memorable music of the 40s (including Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Artie Shaw) and through music and anecdotes follows the career of Frank Sinatra from his Big Band beginnings to his superstar Las Vegas years. This highly professional show has been a huge box office success for numerous theatres in southern Ontario and features 19 performers including the 14-member Galaxy All-Star Orchestra and five vocalists (five show dancers can be added if desired.) The production has received rave reviews and has a proven sales record. The show has played in such venues as the Winter Garden Theatre; Kitchener’s Centre in the Square; the Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts, Kingston’s Grand Theatre and has been invited to return to the 2000-seat ArtPark Theatre in Lewiston, New York to open their 2004-5 season.


Galaxy All-Star Orchestra

The Fabulous Crooners promises to be the hot ticket presentation for the 2004-5 season. The ‘Crooners’ is a fast-moving entertaining review of the hits of the ‘50s when male vocalists such as Perry Como, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin, Pat Boone and teen idols from Elvis and Engelbert to Paul Anka and Tom Jones dominated the pop charts. This quality stage show features a talent-packed cast of 19 including the versatile 14-member Galaxy All-Star Orchestra, acclaimed as Canada’s most popular Big Band, plus show-stopping performances by a dynamic male vocalist-entertainer along with a four-member vocal group.

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Unforgettable…Brothers of Song features the music of Nat 'King' Cole and celebrates such notable as Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, Al Hibbler, Sam Cooke, Johnny Mathis, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder; Barry White; James Brown, Lou Rawls, Lionel Ritchie and others.  Cole, a musical pioneer with hits such as "Unforgettable", "Mona Lisa", "Ramblin’ Rose", "Nature Boy" sold over 50 million recordings during his illustrious career. This two-hour production features Rudy Mayes with an all-star band, a lead female vocalist plus four solo and back-up singers. This smooth, romantic, joyous show takes audiences through the early years of jazz, gospel, blues, soul, rock 'n' roll, Motown and more. 

BEST OF BROADWAY - DIRECTOR’S NOTES

Stardust Follies for 2005-2006 continues to showcase talented performers, creative dance numbers, leggy showgirls, sparkling costumes and the best of Broadway. We’ve saved the most popular numbers from last season and added new songs, fresh dance numbers, original comedy routines and different video images. Last year was a resounding success and bus-loads of people from near and far have told us so. Rather than sit on our laurels, we’ve made Stardust Follies even better, more unique and more sensational.

Looking at our new 2005-2006 season’s song list you can see we’ve kept crowd-pleasing numbers from last year. For example Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, As Time Goes By, I Can’t Say No, When I’m Not Near the Girl I love, Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better, All That Jazz, Time of My Life and our Al Jolson medley…the numbers audiences repeatedly said they loved. The same holds true for the major dance numbers such as There’s No Business Like Show Business, Can-Can, Forget About the Boy, Cabaret, Flashdance-What A feeling; Hooray For Hollywood, Diamond’s Are a Girls best Friend and so on. The songs that made the most impression last year are still there to enjoy this year. But to make sure we present the best of Broadway I’ve made a lot of changes.

The big change this year comes from the variety and blending of songs. We now present a wider range of blockbuster hits from past Broadway shows along with talked-about songs from current musicals. This year we offer the best of both worlds…memorable standards from early Broadway including South Pacific, Follow the Fleet, Singin’ In The Rain, West Side Story, Jekyll and Hyde  along with a taste of current musicals such as Les Miserables, Lion King, Chicago, Hairspray, Urinetown and Wicked.  I’ve introduced a new musical salute to Mae West, a new Charlie Chaplin skit and created a spectacular Busby Berkeley-style dance number guaranteed to astound.. In our second season we present 15 new production numbers representing half the show…but it’s the overall show with 30 songs that audiences will applaud, remember and rave about.

Irving Berlin’s memorable 1939 song Let’s Face The Music and Dance from Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’ film Follow The Fleet  has been developed into an elaborate dance extravaganza featuring Georgia Steel and Peter Fleming along with the entire line-up of Stardust Follies Dancers. This long-time favourite has been recorded by dozen of artists including Nat ‘King’ Cole, Frank Sinatra and recently by jazz vocalist Diana Krall. Audiences will be familiar with Nothing Like A Dame from South Pacific, the heart-rendering One Hand One Heart from West Side Story and, the world’s most famous dance number, Gene Kelly’s  unforgettable Singing In the Rain.

To balance the show we introduce music which may be new to audiences.  Award-winning songs that are so excellent they cry out to be seen and heard. In this to-good-miss category are Circle of Life from Lion King, the Gospel-style Run Freedom Run from Urinetown,  70’s era You Can’t Stop the Beat from Hairspray, plus Popular and As Long As Your Are Mine from the musical Wicked a nine time Tony Award winner.

Be sure to see Stardust Follies …the musical with Love, Laughs, Lyrics and Legs and the best of Broadway.

JOHN DIMON

Producer-Director

Stardust Follies Inc.